Description: The long-awaited post-Apartheid play by one of the greatest playwrights in South Africa and the world.
Brief description:
Athol Fugard (1932-2025) worked in the theater as a playwright, director and actor for more than fifty years. His plays include Blood Knot, Boesman and Lena, "Master Harold"... and the boys, The Road to Mecca, My Children! My Africa!, Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act and Valley Song.
Review Quotes:
Valley Song is a work of art. It sings of a future that comes of large dreams in need of patience and enduring care. It will haunt you.
-Larry S. Ledford, Bergen News
This extraordinary play is what theatre should be.
--Donald Lyons, Wall Street Journal
Valley Song is a vivid, haunting, surreptitiously personal report from the front. It's a complex play, simply and beautifully done.
--Vincent Canby, New York Times
Athol Fugard is a prolific playwright of prophecy and poetry, a grand storyteller who weaves tales of his people and the ever-changing world of South Africa.
--Robert L. Daniels, Variety